Germany is undergoing a significant military rearmament. The change has been driven by the ongoing war in Ukraine and U.S. pressure on Europe to shoulder more of its defense.

The Düsseldorf-based company reported a backlog of 64 billion euros at the end of the third quarter of 2025, a fivefold increase from its order book of 12.9 billion euros at the end of 2020. ・U.S. President Donald Trump has also pushed the EU countries to raise their defense spending goals to cut reliance on Washington,

Russian technology companies working on air defense, sensitive electronics and other defense applications were targeted in recent weeks by a cyber espionage group using AI-generated decoy documents, according to a cybersecurity analyst.

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The bloc's research strategy, backed by €1 billion, includes a secret project aimed at testing a hypersonic glide vehicle demonstrator.

A US-backed European peacekeeping force would secure an eventual peace deal, with additional help for Ukraine to build an 800,000-strong peacetime force.

European defense stocks are rallying as Germany prepares to greenlight more defense spending, and Morgan Stanley analysts say there are bigger gains ahead.

The United States expects its European allies to take on a much greater burden of conventional deterrence in Europe as the continent faces a threat from a belligerent and revanchist Russia. If Europe is to succeed, it must dramatically scale up its own ...

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The US has given Europe until 2027 to take over the decisive bulk of NATO’s conventional defense capabilities, ranging from intelligence to missiles, Reuters reported on Friday, citing people it didn’t name.